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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDPM.2014.12.1.13

The provision of neutral program and limit of criminal liability  

Kim, Hyung-Man (Division of police, Law and public Administration)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.12, no.1, 2014 , pp. 13-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
The problem of the cases of Soribada and Winny is their duplexity that they could be used legally and illegally. The issue called 'The crime of aiding through the neutral behavior' is about whether the program developer who shared the file sharing program letting unspecified public infringe the copyright could be punished or not. Many theories about limiting the traditional scope of punishment of aider have been maintained. However, it is questionable whether it is possible to limit the scope of punishment following the former cases and theories even for the action that is causal and facilitates the principal's criminal conduct, like the aid through the neutral action which is hard to perceive as illegal aid because of its characteristics. Therefore, using the case of Soribada in Korea and the case of Winny in Japan as the examples of illegal aid through neutral behavior case, this paper examines the characteristics and problems of aid through existing theories and cases, and suggests new scope of punishment limitation standard through the elaboration of the action of aid and judgment of degree.
Keywords
Neutral behavior; Soribada; Winny; Infringement of copyright; P2P;
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